Well, I asked a simple question and got a devious non-answer.

How else do I get a straight answer to a simple question from you guys?

Sigh. Those of us that cannot yet walk on water liked Gronmayer, we found it useful. When we ask for something similar so that we can get on with our lives then it seems to me to be a strange answer to tell us to go and harass every independent developer to use Maemo instead of creating their own repositories.

You think that is important then that is your itch, not mine. I just want to be able to find some apps to install on my N800 today, Gronmayer helped me do that, Maemo in its current incarnation does not - at least not very well, it does not even have an application search field in the downloads section.

I agree that it sounds like a good idea if (I think this is a big if) Nokia can persuade all developers to use Maemo, but I can understand why some devs would not want to be associated with that dog's breakfast of a site.

I just want a pragmatic solution soon, not at some magical time in the future when all independent devs have seen the light.

If Gronmayer comes back and has a donate button then he gets some money from, pronto!